COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- American Electric
Power (NYSE: AEP) has named Stanley E.
Partlow vice president and chief security officer effective
Sept. 1. Partlow, 57, has served as
managing director - Security & Aviation since 2010. In addition
to Partlow's current responsibilities for physical security and AEP
aviation, he will oversee the company's cyber security efforts.
Partlow will report to Robert P.
Powers, executive vice president and chief operating
officer.
"Stan's extensive law enforcement experience and his
relationships with security experts and law enforcement agencies
across the country are an asset to AEP," Powers said. "By combining
our physical and cyber security efforts under Stan's leadership, we
can leverage the expertise of both teams to make our security
operations even more robust in the face of increasingly more
sophisticated and persistent threats."
Partlow joined AEP in 2005 as director - Security & Aviation
after a distinguished 25-year career in law enforcement. Earlier in
his career, Partlow held several supervisory positions with the
City of Columbus Division of Police and was a special agent for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Partlow serves on the boards of Franklin
University and the Center for Family Safety and Healing. He
holds a juris doctorate degree from Capital
University Law School, a master of science degree in
administration from Central Michigan
University, and a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from
Bowling Green State University. In
addition, Partlow is a graduate of the Northwestern University School of Police Staff and
Command and the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Policy Executive
Leadership College.
American Electric Power is one of the largest electric utilities
in the United States, delivering
electricity to nearly 5.4 million customers in 11 states. AEP ranks
among the nation's largest generators of electricity, owning nearly
32,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the U.S. AEP also owns
the nation's largest electricity transmission system, a more than
40,000-mile network that includes more 765-kilovolt extra-high
voltage transmission lines than all other U.S. transmission systems
combined. AEP's transmission system directly or indirectly serves
about 10 percent of the electricity demand in the Eastern
Interconnection, the interconnected transmission system that covers
38 eastern and central U.S. states and eastern Canada, and approximately 11 percent of the
electricity demand in ERCOT, the transmission system that covers
much of Texas. AEP's utility units
operate as AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power (in Virginia and West
Virginia), AEP Appalachian Power (in Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky
Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electric Power
Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana and east Texas). AEP's headquarters are in Columbus, Ohio.
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SOURCE American Electric Power